The transport recovered from the blast it took last round, and started this round off by opening fire on Regulus. It also dropped some more explosives down for the Czech ground forces to use.

Regulus' armour had a hole burned through it from one of the laser cannons, killing him instantly. :[ A sad day for the Assyrians.

On the other side of the field, the lead Vostok opened fire on the cruiser. It was targeting the small inset laser turret.

What a terrible roll... D: But one shot hit. (The 3)

And the gun was destroyed.

Then it was the MiG II's turn. It fired its laser cannons and one missile at the big turret on the back, and fired the other missile at the bridge.

The laser blasts destroyed the turret completely.

The missile aimed at the turret then changed course and impacted the side of the cruiser instead. It caused some structure damage.

The missile aimed at the bridge hit dead-on. It smashed the window, killed a member of the crew, and blew up his control console. It also did a point of structure damage.

End Turn

Assyrian Space Force

With all its starboard guns destroyed, the cruiser had to resort to firing its missiles. The first of these two rolled a critical failure to damage, so it exploded in mid-air. But the second one landed on target.

It was aimed at the Czech Super Commandos in an attempt to save the Assyrian mecha from impending doom. It succeeded in killing 4 of them.

Then the cruiser, again lacking any starboard guns, rammed the Space Pirate tower.

Crunch!!

The three guys in the tower died from falling to their deaths and being smacked by a space cruiser. Palomar and the pirate with the green laser rifle were knocked down into prone positions, but were not injured.

The cruiser backed up a little bit... And thus, its true intentions were made clear.

The carnage was incredible. The cruiser fired with its two turbo ion cannons at the Czech ground forces and the three Space Pirates who were walking towards the red and white container. (The giant main cannon would have fired above their heads and hit nothing but the top of the castle.) Only Democratus and the lead Czech car were spared. (They were out of the path of the blast.)

As if that weren't enough, the cruiser then fired its four hidden missiles at the remaining Vostok. The first missile exploded in midair. (Critical Failure...) The second impacted on its shields. The shields were taken down but no damage was taken. The third missile caused no damage (The armour protected it.) And, well, the fourth...?

It smashed into the Vostok's cockpit and destroyed its port gun. The pilot was killed by the blast and the Vostok took structure damage.

Internal sensors on the Vostok detected that the pilot was dead, so it automatically landed. The controls were not damaged so someone else can throw the dead body out and take it over.

This ends the Assyrian Space Force's turn.

Space Ninjas

Regulus was dead. Therefore, the Ninjas only had one other order to carry out. They called in their Ninja Star Fighter.

Two Ninjas jumped in the back.

That ends the Space Ninja's Turn.

Space Pirates

The Space Pirates tried to help their trapped comrades out of under the wreckage from the tower.

First they repaired the crane.

Then they used the crane to lift one of the sections of tower out of the pit where two Space Pirates had been trapped.

They managed to push off the other section, and were thus freed from the wreckage.

Lacking any heavy weapons, they opted to not fire at the Assyrian cruiser.

End Turn.

The Czech Republic

Democratus took the ladder cart that was by the cargo container and drove it to the hill where most of the remaining Assyrians are hiding, and he raised up the ladder.

The Czech robots convinced one of the repair men to help put back together the green car. The lead car picked up the other repair man and brought him over to do the same. Since there are two repair guys working on it, it will be repaired 100% by the start of the next Czech turn. The lead car also fired at the Assyrians on the hill, but it missed.

With repairs under way, the robots fired two MK III missiles and one MK II missile at the cruiser. The MK II exploded in mid-air (critical failure) but the others both hit the cruiser.

The first one hit the main cannon and completely wrecked it, and blew off some of the armour plating that had been protecting it.

The second one veered off course, and hit the side of the cruiser instead. (I resolve failure to hits against the cruiser with a roll of two as still hitting it since it's so big, just hitting the wrong section.) A large hole was blasted into the port side of the cruiser, and it suffered three points of structure damage.

The surviving Super Commando fired at the mecha, but caused no damage.

On the other side of the field, one of the Czech commandos fired at the Assyrian hero, Major Smith, but missed. So instead, he planted the Brickonium Bomb he was carrying, and ran like hell!!

The bomb exploded, but miraculously one of the Assyrian soldiers came out of nowhere and knocked Major Smith to safety behind some of the ruins.

Unfortunately, he was killed by the blast.

Unamused, the rest of the Czechs opened fire.

Three more Assyrians were killed. The Czechs would have fired rockets as well, but they made a dire miscalculation... None of the surviving Czech soldiers had rocket-sticks to fire their missiles with. D:

Elsewhere, Ice Man jumped on the Ninja Starfighter and took the controls.

He flew it at the Assyrian cruiser. He attempted a heroic feat to fire its weapons as well, but the roll was tied so he failed. (On a tie I don't punish heroes for failing since the dice are rigged for the defender, so nothing happened to Ice Man.)

This ends the Czech-Republican turn.

Assyrian Star Empire

Unimpressed by the Super Commando, the mecha shot him into the pit.

It then flew over to the hill where the rest of the Assyrians were camped.

And it opened fire on the small transport.

The transport got shot up pretty bad, and took two more points of structure damage. The port laser gun was also broken, but the pilot was not injured.

The mecha then jumped off the pillars it was on, and took cover in the pit.

Major Smith peeked around the wall and fired at the Czech Commandos. One was killed.

The last two Assyrians fired as well.

They killed one more. But they were still outnumbered... So, they called in for backup.

The Assyrian Commandos teleported in and basically slaughtered the remaining Czech Commandos.

Back at the hill, one Assyrian jumped out of cover and shot at the Wookies.

He managed to kill one.

Then a Giant cult invaded the battlefield.

It decided to go to sleep.

The Assyrian with the light laser cannon, and the Terminator fired at the MiG II.

But they both caused no damage. All the Assyrians by the hill took cover.

NatalyaAF wrote:The three guys in the tower died from falling to their deaths and being smacked by a space cruiser. Palomar and the pirate with the green laser rifle were knocked down into prone positions, but were not injured.

NatalyaAF wrote:The carnage was incredible. The cruiser fired with its two turbo ion cannons at the Czech ground forces and the three Space Pirates who were walking towards the red and white container. (The giant main cannon would have fired above their heads and hit nothing but the top of the castle.) Only Democratus and the lead Czech car were spared. (They were out of the path of the blast.)

how is this only three deaths?
3 from the tower+3 walking around = 6 deaths

otherwise, great day.

Act first, then think, then try to find a way to cover up the horrible mess you made.
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This is practically the single most awesome thing I've ever seen. I'm lovin every moment of it. That SHIP is simply amazing. SHIP's are rare you know, and that's an especially good one. If the explosians weren't so cool I'd be wincing every time it gets a chunk knocked off.

The carnage is just lovely, *wipes tear* I'm rooting for the Czech politicians.